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Since all eyes are on the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball each year, it’s only natural that the high-tech device would inspire some digital initiatives surrounding the big event. From TV networks rewarding viewers for watching certain shows to follo...

RIM's mobile market share fell from 7.1% to 6.5% between September and November, according to a recent report. During the same time period, Apple's share increased 1.4%, coinciding with the iPhone 4S launch. When it comes to the smartphone market, RI...

Despite claiming to be America's most reliable network, Verizon customers reported outages Dec. 8, 21 and 28. Wednesday's outages were reported on both the 3G and 4G networks. Complaints came from across the U.S., including cities such as New York, C...

Google is the top digital brand for 2011, followed by Facebook and Yahoo, according to recent research tracking unique monthly visitors per month. A Nielsen study shows Google is the top digital U.S. web company, with more than 150 million visitors e...

As previously noted, this Christmas was a big one for the smartphone category. While Flurry Analytics found that 6.8 million Android and iOS devices were activated on Christmas Day, though, the company declined to outline how much share each platform...

In what may be the first marriage proposal on Google+, a man asked his girlfriend to marry him on the network via the game Crime City. On the other hand, it could be just a clever marketing stunt. According to Funzio, the company behind the game, it ...

Now that Facebook Timeline is available to the public, the social network has integrated the new look and feel with its Android, mobile web and iPhone apps; but what about the iPad? According to 9to5Mac, Facebook is aiming for a mid to late January a...

Internet shoppers were happy with Amazon and disappointed in Netflix this holiday season, according to a study released Wednesday. In an annual index of ecommerce sites' customer satisfaction by analytics firm ForeSee, Amazon's performance improved w...

We all know (or should know) that there's no magic formula to creating a "viral video," but there are some core ingredients to getting thousands and even millions of views. Do you know the secrets? Internet celebrity and top YouTuber iJustine talks a...

The second round of iPhone 5 rumors has officially begun, speculating a redesigned front rim in rubber or plastic, possibly to connect the face to a new aluminum back plate or to cover a new antenna system. BGR says a source close to the company clai...

There may be preconceptions that faithful Americans skew older in age and are traditionally set in their ways, but according to a new study, religious Americans embrace technology just as much as those who are less religious. A new report from the Pe...

One in every seven minutes online and three out of every four minutes on social networking sites are spent on Facebook, according to a comScore report released Tuesday. Twitter is on the rise, the report also said, increasing its user base 59% over t...

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees broke the NFL's 27-year-old single-season passing record Monday night, and the feat immediately attracted a flurry of congratulatory tweets, including one from previous record holder Dan Marino and another fr...

Venture capitalist Paul Holland isn't just a general partner at Foundation Capital, he's also a documentarian. He is the executive producer of Something Ventured, a documentary that explores the origins of the tech startup economy in Silicon Valley. ...

Reddit user SelfProdigy has declared Dec. 29 Dump GoDaddy Day, following the domain registrar's short-lived public support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Although GoDaddy has announced that it no longer supports SOPA, the site is still facing...

Noah Kravitz left his former employer PhoneDog in October 2010 on good terms. Now the company is suing him for $340,000 for the 17,000 followers he kept after he left the the position, valuing each follower at $2.50 per month over a period of eight m...

Did you get a new iPad for Christmas and don't know where to begin downloading? Apple launched its 12 Days of Christmas App Monday, which lets you fill your new device with music, videos, apps and books for free. Each of the downloads will only be av...

The act of hijacking a Facebook friend's account when they forget to log out of a public computer and posting embarrassing status updates or photos, known as frape (a combination of Facebook and rape), is not a new phenomenon. But now, blogger Martyn...

Steve Jobs will go down in history as one of the greatest tech innovators that ever lived, but according to a letter written by a Silicon Valley advertising executive back in 1976, he was a "joker." The letter -- now archived at Stanford University -...

Do you feel like everything you've done for the last few years is recorded by Twitter's eternal digital record? A new service, TwitWipe, can get rid of all your carefully crafted (and less carefully crafted) 140-character messages. Rather than creati...

Best Buy will not be able to fill all of its customers’ online orders before the holidays, the company has announced. “Due to overwhelming demand of hot product offerings on BestBuy.com during the November and December time period, we have encountere...

Google Search has put its own spin on the conventional caption-writing contest. To test your wit, it wants you to view a cartoon in which one of the characters is performing a Google search. Your task is to write a word or phrase to illustrate what t...

Fabrice Grinda is the CEO of OLX, one of the largest classified websites in the world, and he's very excited about the emerging digital markets Russia and Brazil. His company, which he describes as Craiglist 2.0 for the rest of the world, is rapidly ...

Notice anything different at the top of your Facebook today? On the top of users' pages, the company has added a blurb and link to explain how the social network gets ads and why they show up on your pages. Ads bring in enough money to help keep the ...

Google's Android Chief Andy Rubin has revealed that Android sales continue to climb, boasting 700,000 activated devices daily. In June, that number was 500,000. Rubin announced the milestone on Google+ and Twitter late Tuesday. Check out the video ab...

A recent study found that during the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, Twitter users were more likely to get information from journalists, bloggers and activists than from news organizations. "Both revolutions featured prominent use of social media, bo...

After months of speculation, Microsoft rolled out its semi-social network, So.cl. The site is aimed at students looking to collaborate and share searches. The site also lets users create mood boards similar to Pinterest. "There is a bit of an art to ...

First generation iPod nano owners who took part in Apple's recall will be surprised to find their overheating nano might be replaced with a new sixth generation iPod Nano. The only catch: the new Nano doesn't come with a warranty. Check out the video...

The tools may change but the goals are still the same. Chris Brogan, the best selling author of the books Trust Agents and Google+ for Business, reminds us that social business always has been and always will be about people. Digital technology is ju...

A recent study of Twitter use reveals that the general public appears to be less happy than previously. University of Vermont researchers surveyed more than 4.5 billion tweets and discovered which words were used the most and how they characterize ou...

Want to walk in the literal footsteps of some legendary rappers? The work of one avid Foursquare user will let you do just that. PR Manager Paul Rayment is mapping the history of famous rappers on the location-based service, adding note-worthy locati...

The Recording Industry Association of America claims Google hasn't been keeping its promises when it comes to fighting online piracy. "Google, as the overwhelming market leader in search and online advertising, has a special responsibility to lead an...

Comics by Comixology has become the de facto tablet reading platform for comic books. That only happened because Comixology CEO David Steinberger spent time learning the business of comics before figuring out how to digitize it. "We took the time to ...

Apple joins a growing list of digital music stores adding the Parental Advisory logo to their digital collections. Until now, Apple has only listed explicit content song by song. Amazon, HMV, Napster UK, eMusic, 7digital, Tesco and Vevo will also all...

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